Peruvian 'RAT MAN' shares home and food with dozens of rodents

W/S Miguel Angel Silva walks through hallway with selection of rats, Lima
W/S Angel Silva reading comic with rats crawling over him
W/S Angel Silva stroking rats
C/U Rats being stroked
W/S Angel Silva on bed with rats
W/S Angel Silva plays drums with rat on shoulder
W/S Rats sniffing comics
SOT, Miguel Angel Silva (Spanish): "One day a rat entered my house, and they wanted to kill him and I protected him. They wanted to kill him with brooms and I saved him. I put him in a little box and I kept him on the roof. And from there I started to realise that he was not as bad as one might think and he became my friend."
W/S Angel Silva attends to caged rats outside
C/U The rats in cage
W/S Angel Silva feeding rats
C/U Rats eating the food
SOT, Miguel Angel Silva (Spanish): "The human must return to nature, as they are teaching us. A rat, although it is in a dirty environment - such as a sewer or drain - does not eat garbage and has degenerated simply because humans have turned it into something antisocial."
W/S Angel Silva preparing to wash rats
C/U Rat being washed
C/U Rat being scrubbed
W/S Silva drying rat with towel
W/S Silva with rats on windowsil
SOT, Miguel Angel Silva (Spanish): "The day you understand them, you will be able to understand that if there are no rats and there are no bees, as science says, we would not exist. Medicine and science advance thanks to them. Therefore it is a species that we have to learn to value and not discriminate [against], like many people do."
W/S Angel Silva walking down street with rats
W/S Angel Silva in shop with rats
SOT, Miguel Angel Silva (Spanish): "It is not common to see a man with rats on the street. That's why people give me several names like 'the rat man.' As you can see the rats pay attention to me. 'The Pied Piper,' 'rat tamer,' 'rat lover.' Several names they put give to me because they think I'm magical with rats."
W/S Angel Silva sitting on street with rats
W/S Angel Silva sharing food with rats on street
C/U Rats eating food
W/S Rat does trick on Angel Silva
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For some people, the sight of a scuttling rat in their home is a frightening experience, but Miguel Angel Silva, also locally known as "rat man," is happy to share both his home and his food with his furry friends.
Angel Silva can be seen playing and eating with his rodent companions in footage filmed on Monday in Lima.
Angel Silva has been teaching the rats tricks ever since saving one from a friend who wanted to kill one they had spotted. He hid the rat in the roof before it "became his friend."
At one point the Lima local had 100 rats, which he says are misunderstood by humans, stating that they are "a species that we have to learn to value."
People seem shocked as he walks around with a selection of rats on his shoulders each day, but he says humans should not "discriminate" against the rats, who he washes every day.